SYR to ORD flight delays
Syracuse, NY (SYR) Chicago, IL (ORD) · 607 miles
2,187 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
74.04%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
3.02%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
77 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
21 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. American Airlines arrived on time 20.1 points more often than SkyWest Airlines over the same period on the same route — same airports, same weather, same air traffic control. A gap that survives all of that is about how the two airlines are run.
The season swings this route hard. In May it ran 30.3 points more punctual than in December — a difference bigger than the one between the best and worst airlines on most routes. If the date is flexible, it is worth more than the carrier.
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 3.02% of scheduled flights never operated. A late flight still gets you there. A cancelled one leaves you rebooking, and on a route with few daily departures that can mean losing a day.
Flights from Syracuse to Chicago run late more often than the average route, though not severely.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over January 2025 – August 2026, American Airlines arrived on time most often on SYR to ORD. SkyWest Airlines was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in May and worst in December.
Every airline on SYR to ORD
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airways | 752 | 72.74% | 3.86% | 79 min | D |
| Envoy Air | 686 | 79.1% | 2.62% | 82 min | C |
| United Airlines | 405 | 75.25% | 1.73% | 60 min | D |
| SkyWest Airlines | 241 | 59.13% | 4.15% | 76 min | F |
| American Airlines | 103 | 79.21% | 1.94% | 103 min | C |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
ORD to SYR Chicago back to Syracuse 74.66% on time DOther routes from Syracuse
Common questions
Are flights from Syracuse to Chicago usually delayed?
74.04% of flights on the SYR to ORD route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 3 in every ten arrived late. That is about the same as the average route in this record.
Which airline is most on time from Syracuse to Chicago?
American Airlines, at 79.21% on time across 103 flights. The least punctual on the route was SkyWest Airlines at 59.13%.
How often are SYR to ORD flights cancelled?
3.02% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 30 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
What is the best month to fly Syracuse to Chicago?
May, when 85.7% of flights arrived on time. The worst was December at 55.4%.
When SYR to ORD flights are late, how late are they?
About 77 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on SYR to ORD during January 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →